Following the attack many commenters on the Left rushed to blame it on President Trump, his supporters, and their political agenda, claiming that their pejorative use of the term "Globalist"-supposedly a code word for "Jew" in the white-supremacist lexicon-makes them complicit in the Pittsburgh slaughter.
In the Washington Post, Dana Milbank alleged that Trump has made America unsafe for Jews as a result of his "Full-throated targeting of Jewish 'globalists.'" In New York, Jonathan Chait argued that Trump has always agitated sub rosa against Jews, "Lambast[ing] his enemies as 'globalists,' which, through its implication of extra-national loyalty, closely tracks the primary accusation made against Jews." And comedian Sarah Silverman alerted her 12 million Twitter followers to the "Dogwhistle reminder that these words used by our openly Nationalist President are winks to the alt right: Soros = The Jews Globalist=dirty jew Nationalist = white Nationalist."
These critics claim that Trump, along with Lou Dobbs and other conservative commentators, is more or less consciously referencing the 1903 forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and similar propaganda that propounds worldwide, malevolent Jewish domination.
The fact that Bowers and a handful of like-minded lunatics are hypnotized by a fantasy of malevolent Jewish domination of the world monetary system doesn't mean that Trump's critique of post-nationalist thinking is necessarily wrong.
At the recent Jewish Leadership Conference, held in New York the day after the killings in Pittsburgh, Yoram Hazony, an Israeli philosopher whose recent book The Virtue of Nationalism defends vigorously the traditional nation-state, responded in an interview to the argument that criticism of "Globalism" is anti-Semitic.
It is unsurprising that the Left has sought to tie the murderous hatred of Robert Bowers-who said explicitly that he thinks of President Trump as a "Globalist" stooge of Jewish puppet-masters-to Trump's agenda of promoting American interests above a nebulous vision of global progress, because the Left is committed to pursuing that latter vision at all costs.
Its hatred of Trump and his millions of deplorable supporters is so intense, and at this point so beyond reason, that it pounces on a savage act of hatred as an opportunity to score political points.
https://www.city-journal.org/globalist-does-not-mean-jew
In the Washington Post, Dana Milbank alleged that Trump has made America unsafe for Jews as a result of his "Full-throated targeting of Jewish 'globalists.'" In New York, Jonathan Chait argued that Trump has always agitated sub rosa against Jews, "Lambast[ing] his enemies as 'globalists,' which, through its implication of extra-national loyalty, closely tracks the primary accusation made against Jews." And comedian Sarah Silverman alerted her 12 million Twitter followers to the "Dogwhistle reminder that these words used by our openly Nationalist President are winks to the alt right: Soros = The Jews Globalist=dirty jew Nationalist = white Nationalist."
These critics claim that Trump, along with Lou Dobbs and other conservative commentators, is more or less consciously referencing the 1903 forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and similar propaganda that propounds worldwide, malevolent Jewish domination.
The fact that Bowers and a handful of like-minded lunatics are hypnotized by a fantasy of malevolent Jewish domination of the world monetary system doesn't mean that Trump's critique of post-nationalist thinking is necessarily wrong.
At the recent Jewish Leadership Conference, held in New York the day after the killings in Pittsburgh, Yoram Hazony, an Israeli philosopher whose recent book The Virtue of Nationalism defends vigorously the traditional nation-state, responded in an interview to the argument that criticism of "Globalism" is anti-Semitic.
It is unsurprising that the Left has sought to tie the murderous hatred of Robert Bowers-who said explicitly that he thinks of President Trump as a "Globalist" stooge of Jewish puppet-masters-to Trump's agenda of promoting American interests above a nebulous vision of global progress, because the Left is committed to pursuing that latter vision at all costs.
Its hatred of Trump and his millions of deplorable supporters is so intense, and at this point so beyond reason, that it pounces on a savage act of hatred as an opportunity to score political points.
https://www.city-journal.org/globalist-does-not-mean-jew
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